Monday was 'Opposites' Day and Tuesday was Sports Day...

Back to our school-day routine – get-up at 5am, leave by 5.30, stop at the market to buy some fruit for the orphanage ‘morning tea break’ and get to the school by 6.15 in time for the first class... At about 7.30-8am we head to the orphanage and teach there until 11am when the kids break for lunch (an early lunch as they get-up so early). We then fill our time until 2-3pm when we head back to the school for the afternoon classes until 7pm...
The kids at school were very excited to see us back after our week away – lots of ‘How are you?’ and ‘Shalom’ and ‘Where have you been?’... And of course there was the added bonus of seeing Alex and Mich again, as well as meeting Jess!!

On Monday we taught the kids words and their opposites – we had the kids list some opposite words on the board and write them in their books – and then we played some games... We find that repeating and writing the words is helpful in the kids absorbing, but playing the games helps in recollecting the words and is a FUN way to learn...

Jess and Mich taking the 'Opposites' class at the orphanage

Sari writing down some of the 'opposites' words on the board...

At the packed 5-6pm class Steph and Alex decided to have a competition to see who could find the pair of 'opposites' faster...

...And the kids LOVED it!!... :))

Tuesday started early as we had to prepare for our Sports Day activities – we combined the 2 early morning classed and had about 50 kids spread over 4 teams... 4 very competitive teams... :)

We played some team ball games, 'duck races' and word games – and of course had ribbon ceremonies at the end of each class – for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place-teams... Needless to say everyone got a ribbon... And THANK YOU to George and Patty at Office Works HO for donating the ribbons!!

Laughter, smiles and fun, fun, fun...

Playing 'tunnel ball' on Sports Day...

Carrying the ball between the knees and passing it on to the next team member without using hands... :))

The 'mandarin and spoon race' replaced the 'egg and spoon race' to save us having to boil the eggs... :)

Mich congratulating the team members and presenting them with their ribbons at the 'ribbon ceremony'...

Playing 'tunnel ball' at the orphanage... Some of the kids were too little to pass the ball between their legs... :))

'Kangaroo hopping' was one of our sports... :))

Morning tea - Tom, a volunteer from the UK, helping to distribute the bananas... Cost of a stalk of about 100 bananas?... $2.50... That's not a typo... $2.50...

The 'duck races' - blowing the ducks across the 'pond'... :))

And the girls got in there too...

'Poison ball' was a hit...

And posing with our ribbons... Everyon'e a winner of course... :))

The 'school bus'... Tourn giving some of the smaller kids a ride home after school...

Lunch...

On the next Post - Pancake Day... you wouldn't want to miss this... we made pancakes from 6am to 7pm... :)))